IN BRIEF
NATRONA HEIGHTS — Michael Harlovic was named senior vice president and chief operating officer for the Alle-Kiski Medical Center.
Harlovic has been with AKMC since 1993. He has been interim president and chief executive officer for the hospital.
He has taught at both Penn State University and Butler County Community College.
Harlovic earned a bachelor's degree in nursing and a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Pittsburgh.
Valencia man heads national union group
Robert W. Santillo of Valencia, president of McCarl's, on Wednesday was elected president of The Association of Union Constructors at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes during the association's 2009 Leadership Conference.
The association is the premiere national trade association representing the union construction industry. It has more than 2,500 union contractors, local union contractor associations and vendors in the industrial maintenance and construction field.
McCarl's of Beaver Falls is one of the top 50 mechanical contractors in the United States. It had 1,500 employees with Pennsylvania offices in Pittsburgh, Erie and Harrisburg.
It is subsidiary of PPL Corporation of Allentown.
PITTSBURGH — Light of Life Rescue Mission, a faith-based nonprofit organization that serves the poor and homeless in the greater Pittsburgh region, hired Cindy Shafer as its director of development.Before moving to Light of Life, Shafer was director of resource development at Glade Run Lutheran Services in Zelienople. She has 18 years of experience in nonprofit work and education.Shafer has a bachelor's degree in communications, literature, secondary education from Grove City College.She lives in Cranberry Township with her husband, Dave, and their daughter, Caitlin.
The Butler County Chamber of Commerce announced the following events:• 11:30 a.m. Friday, Networking Luncheon at Pittsburgh Marriott North @ Cranberry Woods, $25 for chamber members.• 5:20 p.m. May 28, at the Butler Country Club, Penn Township, Butler County Young Professionals' Finance and Insurance for the Young Professional seminar, cash bar and cash dinner.• 8 a.m. May 29, at Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North Cranberry Township, sponsored by Butler County Community College, free one-day seminar, "Community and Business Preparedness and Emergency Planning." For information, call Scott Campbell at BC3 724-287-8711.• June 4, 11th annual Entrepreneur's Growth Conference at Duquesne University Small Business Development Center; keynote speakers are Jim Rudolph, chief executive officer of Rita's Water Ice, and Giorgio Coraluppi, founder and president of Compunetics. Chamber members can get a discount rate of $99 to attend when registering at www.egc.duq.edu, and entering code EGCDU09.• 3:30 p.m. June 4, Pittsburgh Marriott North in Cranberry Township, NexTier is hosting "the Federal Reserve Bank's Policy Changes as the relate to Current Fiscal Unrest," featuring John Carlson, economist and senior economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.• 7:30 a.m. June 5, Founder's Hall, Butler County Community College, Legislative Breakfast with state Sen. Mary Jo White, R-21st, and state Reps. Brian Ellis, R-11th, Dick Stephenson, R-8th, and Jared Gibbons, D-10th. Cost $10 per person.• July 17, The Atrium in Franklin Township, the annual Cape Cod Dock Party with surf and turf, beer from the North Country Brewing Co. in Slippery Rock, music, games and prizes.For information on any of these events, call the chamber at 724-283-2222.BHS Crystal Ball '09 raises record amountThe Butler Health System Foundation's eighth annual Crystal Ball, held in Cranberry Township on March 29, raised more than $121,000, a record amount.The money will pay for new equipment for CancerCare at Butler Memorial Hospital.
• Samantha Heaton, a student at Slippery Rock University, and Jon-Paul Wimer, a SRU graduate, are interns this summer at the Butler County Chamber of Commerce.
